A Return to Knitting

Hello again!  I know it's dusty and gathering cobwebs around here and no one has been posting, but I have... *gasp*... a little knitting to share.  Now that the baby has a pretty set bed time and it's a relatively early one, I sometimes get a little time to myself before I collapse into bed, too.  In the past few weeks I've even used a little of that time to pick up some knitting again.

Because my little niece was born when our little one was only a few months old I hadn't had the chance to knit for her yet, so I decided to make her a sweet little girly hat for a baptism gift.  I wasn't sure her parents would use it right away, but I thought I'd keep it white anyway.  And since I have a history of knitting things that weren't forgiving enough for larger baby heads, I decided to try to make it fit our little one's noggin so that Miss K could grow into it and maybe even use it through next winter.

It did end up a bit larger than I expected, but fits a little loosely on our little one already:

And although the pattern called for a rolled edge, I was going for something a little frillier, so I started with a picot edge instead.

The picot edge makes the bottom flip outward a bit, but I'm still happy with it.  It was a fun little project and it was really nice to be able to whip up a quick little handmade item for a gift again.

Pattern: Simple newborn hat with a touch of lace by Ginny Sheller
Yarn:  Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light - Winter White
Needles: US 4 - 3.5 mm
Completed: April 7, 2012
Mods: Cast on 99 stitches (for 2 more pattern repeats) to size up from newborn and worked a picot edge instead of letting the stockinette roll.

I'm still slowly whittling away at the Tin Man socks that got dropped at the beginning of the second sock, too, but this little hat was much cuter to share.  Now we'll see if I can keep up with a bit of knitting here and there enough to have something more to share before another 10 months pass me by!